1. corrupt a spare partition with no related entry in fstab
2. for example sdb1 can have an unclean vfat fs and sdb2 is mounted
with an fstab entry (ok)
/var/log/messages can fill up / partition ... in the situation
No pop ups indicate the problem
Best
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